player hating
by Ian Schuldt
Published: January 25, 2008
The saying goes, “Don’t hate the player, hate the game.” Well, too bad. I hate Hillary Clinton anyway. The sad thing is prior to the primaries, I would have been fine with her. Anything has got to be better than what we have now.
I’m a Libertarian myself, so I have problems with both of the parties, but since 2004 I’ve been forced to vote Democrat. Not because I like them, but because somebody has to be able to stand up to the right-wing morons. At the beginning of the primaries, I liked Obama, but I figured if Hillary or even Edwards gets it, that would be fine.
After watching the debate the other night and seeing what’s been going on the last month or so, I’m convinced Hillary Clinton cannot be the next president. She and her husband are willing to lob completely off base attacks at a member of their own party just to get elected. This is exactly the kind of Karl Rovesk tactics that we already have in the White House.
So you say, “But Ian, that’s politics. Don’t hate the player, hate the Game.” The problem is Obama is trying not to play that game, but Hillary has drug him into it. She knows that she can never be as good a leader as Obama and that unlike Obama, she has no vision for this country. Hillary understands that she can never bring herself up to Obama’s level, so she is willing to try and tear him down to hers.
This is exactly what Rove’s team did to Kerry with the Swift Boat Veterans. They knew that Bush’s military service couldn’t compare to Kerry’s, so rather than tote his National Guard status, he got someone to trash Kerry’s Vietnam record. The Bush people did the same thing to John McCain back in 2000. McCain looked like he might win South Carolina, and suddenly there were rumors about McCain fathering an illegitimate black child.
The biggest problem with the current administration has not been its policies. Don’t get me wrong, their policies are horrible. But the biggest problem has been the divisive tactics that the Bush administration uses to stay in power. They have alienated half of the country, and half the world, in order to get in power and stay there.
As a result, this country is more divided now than at any point since the Civil War. Hillary Clinton has shown that she is willing to use the same type of tactics against a member of here own party. She is willing to say or do anything to get in power and stay there. If she has no problem alienating half of her own party to win the primary, it’s not difficult to see what she’ll do in the White House.
Hillary Clinton has no interest in uniting this county. She simply wants to be in power. The reality is Obama’s ideas aren’t that far from hers, the difference is that he’s tried to trumpet his ideas in a way that is inclusive of all Americans. Politics is a game. When it’s played dirty, I hate that game. The Clinton’s want to play it that way, so I hate the players just as much as the game.
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